Coin-controlled apparatus.



PATENTED FEB. 18, 1906.

F. J. DOLE COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1904.

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No. 812,331. PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906. P. J. DOLE.

COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED B16030, 1904.

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I //lllllI -7lll/l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK J. DOLE, OF NEIV YORIL N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE GREAT AMERICANAUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF HOBO- KEN, NEIV JERSEY, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application filed December 30, 1904. Serial No, 238.883-

T (ti/Z whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. DOLE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to and has for its ob ject to provide an improvedcoin-controlled apparatus.

The drawings accompanying and forming a part of this s ecificationillustrate a form of embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the mechanism removed from its casing,showing in dotted lines the passage of a coin from the entrance of thecoinchute to the position where it is about to be engaged by the pullbarand also illustrates in dotted lines a washer which has been deflectedby magnetic means from the coin-chute. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partsbeing broken away to show the coin in its operative position. Fig. 3 isa portion of the device illustrated in Fig. 1, but showing the parts ina different position namely, that of having the ejector thrown forwardby means of a coin shown in dotted. lines interposed between aprojection upon the pull-bar and the ejector-actuator. Fig. 4 is a viewof the parts shown in Fig. 3, but with the pull-bar in its returningposition and the coin dropping out of its grasp. Fig. 5 is across-section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a perspective view ofa portion of the mechanism. Part of it is broken away to show otherparts. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the ejector removed, and Fig. 8isa perspective, on a reduced scale, of a portion of the plate and themeans thereon for holding the shaft in its proper position.

In coin-controlled apparatus it is desirable to have the operatingmechanism simple and in few parts, not only for economy, but forpermanency of adjustment, and wherein the parts are so adjusted onerelatively to the other that wires and other instruments cannot beinserted for the purpose of working the ejector and thereby obtainingthe goods or other salable commodity which the apparatus is intended todispense.

An embodiment of my invention herein illustrated comprises a bed-plate7, having cast upon it pillow-blocks 8 to carry a shaft 9, and whichshaft is held against said pillowblocks by means of arches 10, integralwith the bed-plate 7. This affords a convenient means of assembling themachine, especially one wherein there will be several ejectors mountedin alinement and which may be thus mounted upon the same shaft, whichshaft by means of friction between the pillow-blocks and arches will beheld from rotating with any one of the ejectors which may be operated.

There is shown a package chute or receptacle 15, having a deliveryportion 16, from which the merchandise to be dispensed may be ejectedbythe ejector, which in the present instance comprises a head 17, adaptedto traverse the bottom of the chute and eject packages one at a timeupon its forward excursions through said chute. Said ejector is shown ascarried by a frame 18, having bearings 19 20 upon the shaft 9, and fromone of which bearings, as 20, an arm 21 is shown to project, whichcarries a finger 22, engaging an opening 23 in a plate 24, having a hub25 loose upon the shaft 9, and which plate is adapted to move back andforth in the coinchute member, which comprises a pair of plates 31,fastened together in some convenient manner and between which is acoinchute 32, which coin-chute has a portion 33 of gradual declivity anda precipitate drop portion 34, after which it again assumes a gradualdecline 35 and then another drop at 36. A coin traversing it will bedelivered at a position between a face 60 of the plate 24 and anengaging face 37 upon a slide or pull bar 38, which has a handle portion39 and is held in its idle position by some suitable means, in thepresent instance a coiled spring 40, engaging lugs 41 42 upon thecoin-chute member and such slide, respectively. After the coin hasdropped into the position illustrated by the dotted lines 45 the drawingforward of the pull-bar will carry the coin into engagement with theface and rock the plate 24 upon the shaft 9, thereby rocking the arm 21and the ejector-frame 18, whereby the ejector will be passed through thelower portion of the package-chute, thereby ejecting the lowermostpackage therein, permitting the package to pass through thedelivery-opening 16. The position of this which may be actuating-plate24 is such that access cannot be had from the region of its location tothe coin-chute.

In Fig. 3 the parts are shown in the positions they will assume at theend of the operation of ejecting a package, and Fig. 4 shows the partsin the positions they will assume when the pull-bar is returning to itsrearward position and the plate 24 remaining substantially stationaryand the coin dropping before such plate has made a backward movement,the plate being returned to its idle position by the lug 42 engaging itand pressing it backward. The face 60 of the plate 24 is undercut at 61to strike the coin after the face 37 has moved away from it, and whenthe handle 39 is released to the influence of the spring 40 such portionor face 61 of the plate will expel the coin downwardly, striking it asit leaves its operative position.

The parts are so overbalanced that after the ejector has been drawnforward to its ejecting position it will remain in such position untilpositively returned, in the present illustration by the engagement ofthe lug with it. This prevents the coin being held between such plateand the coin-engaging face upon the pull-bar, which if continued wouldpermit the repeated operation of the device by means of a single coin,and the action of the expelling-face 61 insures the removal of the coinindependently of gravity.

As is well known, washers and other iron disks are frequently employedfor robbing these machines, to prevent which a horseshoe magnet is shownfastened, by means of a screw and bur 51, to the coin-chute frame and islocated above the first drop 34 in the coinchute.

Every coin entering the machine traverses the coin-chute and strikes theends 58 59 of the magnet, as at the dotted-line position 57, and if itis of non-magnetic metal the recoil of the impact will cause it to dropdown the portion 34 of the chute; but if the coin is of magnetic metalwhen it strikes the magnet ends it will adhere to the end 58 for abrieftime, its momentum carrying it around such end and swinging it to aposition where such momentum will release it and drop it in thedottedline position and upon a continuation of the coin-chute (shown at52) on a plane slightly lower than the plane of the first decline 33 ofthe main coin-chute. A washer or other magnetic body passing through thefirst part of the coin-chute will by this magnetic means be preventedfrom traversing the coinchute and arriving at the dotted-line position56 at the end of the chute, but will be dropped down at 53, a plate 54diverting it from the operative position of the coin and permitting itto idly enter the till of the machine.

Changes of detail and construction may of course be resorted to as foundexpedient in practice.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a coin-controlledapparatus having a coin-slot, he combination of an operating-bar havingan abutment-face for engaging the edge of a coin passed through suchslot, arocking plate having an abutment-face for the engagement of theopposite edge of the coin for rocking said plate when the bar isadvanced, means for returning the bar to initial position, and means forreturning the plate to initial position after the bar has been partiallyreturned, whereby the resulting separation of the abutment-faces of suchplate and bar will release the coin.

2. In a coin-controlled apparatus, having a coin-slot, the combinationof an operating-bar having an abutment-face for engaging the edge of acoin passed through such slot, a rocking plate having an abutment-facefor the en gagement of the opposite edge of the coin for rocking saidplate when the bar is advanced, means for returning the bar to initialposition, and means for returning the plate to initial position afterthe bar has been partially re turned, whereby the resulting separationof the abutment-face of such plate and bar will release the coin, andfor striking the coin for displacing it from an operative position.

3. In a coin-controlled apparatus having a coin-slot, the combination ofan operating-b ar having an abutment-face for engaging the edge of acoin passed through such slot, the said face being convex with the chordof the are disposed substantially vertical, the curvature correspondingapproximately to that of the coin, a rocking plate having anabutmentface for engagement by the opposite edge of the coin to bethereby rocked when the bar and coin are advanced, means for returningthe bar to initial position, and means for returning the plate toinitial position after said bar has been partially returned, whereby theresulting separation of the said abutmentfaces will release the coin.

Signed at Nos. 9 to 15 Murray street, New York, N. Y., this 24th day ofDecember,l904.

FREDERICK J. DOLE.

WVitnesses:

' C. A. WEED,

JOHN O. SEIFERT.

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